25 year-old Edinburgh electro indie singer Nina Nesbitt has gone from strength to strength since the release of her debut EP, ‘The Apple Tree’ in 2012. It was followed by a string of EP’s and singles until the release of her debut album ‘Peroxide‘ in 2014. It was a long time between drinks for Nesbitt, who remained quiet until she started releasing singles again in 2017 and finally her second album ‘The Sun Will Come Up, The Seasons Will Change‘ five years later in 2019.

Which is quite a long time for the second album for a young artist at the beginning of her career, but the wait will prove more than worth it for fans of Nesbitt’s music. Nesbitt’s sound has undergone a major transformation since her early recordings, which were a lot more acoustically oriented than ‘The Sun Will Come Up, The Seasons Will Change’. You can hear traces of classic 1996 Tracey Bonham melodic pop-rock song, ‘Mother, Mother‘ in a lot of Nesbitt’s early work.

There was also a fair amount of acoustic guitar-based, folk-tinged songs as well as mainstream girl-pop with some synthesiser backing. But with her new album, Nina Nesbitt has gone far more electronic, although rather than dance bangers, Nesbitt’s music is a lot more soulful, gentle and reflective, closer in style to American dream pop noir queen Lana del Ray and Nesbitt’s vocals sounding in some ways surprisingly like those of Australian Flight Facilities vocalist Nika.

Surprising in that Nesbitt hails from Edinburgh, Scotland and Nika from half way around the world here in Australia, but not so surprising in that Flight Facilities and Nina Nesbitt’s music come from not dissimilar genres airy, dreamy, reflective, synthesiser based pop, although Flight Facilities are more dance oriented. ‘The Sun Will Come Up, The Seasons Will Change’ contains the two 2017 singles that heralded Nesbitt’s return after her three year hiatus and electronic transformation, ‘The Moments I’m Missing‘ and ‘The Best You Had‘.

The former of which is a meditation on losing touch with all the significant, touching moments life gives you, how you can lose touch with them when you’ve been hurt by a bad relationship break up and the process of recovery and finding your way back to enjoying all of life’s other moments outside of romantic love after being broken hearted. The latter of which is about fighting pride and ego in the face of a break up, trying to cope by telling yourself it’s ok because you’re the best your ex ever had.

And thus consumes the subject matter of most of the remainder of the album. There are meany dreamy, soft, slow, dubby-sounding electronic and synthesiser based songs such as ‘Sacred‘, ‘Is It Really Me You’re Missing‘ and recent single, ‘Somebody Special‘, with all sorts of neat and mesmerising electronic effects. If you want to put the headphones on and block out the world, whether you’re into it or not lie back, perhaps in the spa with candles and just relax and let it all go, this album is the perfect soundtrack with which to do it.